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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

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So I grabbed my iPhone , dialed United, and heard this recorded message: Thanks for calling United Airlines. In all, it took one hour…17 minutes…33 seconds for the CSR to work with another department to see if the flight I needed was available, get an updated ticket price, rebook the flight, and complete the transaction.

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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

So I grabbed my iPhone , dialed United, and heard this recorded message: Thanks for calling United Airlines. In all, it took one hour…17 minutes…33 seconds for the CSR to work with another department to see if the flight I needed was available, get an updated ticket price, rebook the flight, and complete the transaction.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Jay Baer (via iPhone) [link] jaybaer Thanks. Jay Baer (via iPhone) [link] SiteLab Interactive Forget the hard sell and try being helpful instead. By the way your post looks GREAT on a mobile device. This was another excellent post. link] jaybaer Thanks. I appreciate that. I appreciate that.